Il Medioevo nel cinema cecoslovacco

Jan Žižka

1955, regia di Otakar Vávra

Scheda: Nazione: Cecoslovacchia - Soggetto: Miloš Václav Kratochvíl, Otakar Vávra - Sceneggiatura: Miloš Václav Kratochvíl, Otakar Vávra - Fotografia: Václav Hanuš - Musiche: Jirí Srnka - Durata: 115'.

Cast: Zdenek Štepánek, František Horák, Karel Höger, Vlasta Matulová, Ladislav Pešek, Jan Pivec, Rudolf Hrusínský, Radovan Lukavský, Vladimír Ráz, Marie Vásová, František Kreuzmann, Míla Pacová.

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: vltava.cz - volny.cz - www2.webpark.cz: «1419: The atmosphere in Prague after Hus' death is very tense. Several rebels are prisoned and radical priest Jan Želivský leads large masses of people to the Old Town's council house occupied by corrupt councillors, where the prisoners are kept. The councillors refuse demands lodged by Želivský and several people are killed by stones thrown from windows. This act provokes ennoyance and leads to an overt uprising: the gate of the council house is broken and the councillors are thrown out of windows and killed (the so-called first Prague defenestration). When the king hears about this event, he is enormously upset and dies of heart failure. In the night the queen with courtiers leaves the city. The hussite revolution begins and the rebels elect Jan Žižka as their leader. However...».

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